xiv, 395 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-382)

Includes indexes

Euthyphro : The story of a homicide in Naxos ; Note on Athenian homicide law ; The man Euthyphro ; Euthyphro's doctrine -- Socrates : The story of a teacher accused ; The problem of education and the ethics of speech ; The man Socrates ; Socrates' doctrines -- The first steps in philosophy of religion : A serious encounter with serious consequences ; Disease in the city ; The Socratic practice ; What shall the next steps be? -- The question is the existence of forms ; What are forms? ; What if forms do not exist? Philosophy as contemplation ; The speech of a philosopher -- Philosophy of religion in the making : What teachings should be transmitted? ; Strains in Greek religious life ; The expressions of opinion ; From opinions to doctrines: the trajectory of a philosophy of religion -- The necessary conversion of the self : Mores and morality among the Greeks ; The concern with the soul ; The rejection of tyranny ; Philosophy as moral therapy ; Gorgias: the story of moral resistance -- There is an intelligible order conducive to the human good : Power and order in Greek religion ; From Homer's gods to the god without envy ; The form of the Good: argument and tentative analogies ; Am austere love of the Good ; The Republic: the arresting of disorder and the rooting of order -- The divine pull : Divine care is all-pervading ; The enthusiastic strain: divination and Dionysiac orgia ; The human soul is intelligently open ; Divine madness ; That bone of contention: love ; Desire, rhetoric and the art of writing ; Phaedrus: the divine pull at work -- The goodness of pious ways : Rearticulation and translation ; Theology and the problem of beliefs ; Myths, stories, and history among the Greeks ; The stories of world and of societies ; Plato: theist and founder of religion? ; The Laws: building order in fourth-century Greece -- Conclusion : A philosophy: practice, doctrine, and topics ; A transposition of Greek religion ; Public piety ; The piety of the cognoscenti ; The philosopher caught between mysticism and politics ; The languages of a philosopher of religion ; The Symposium: the philosopher of religion at work -- Un-Platonic postscript : The end of tragedy? ; Plato's obvious failure ; The analysis of a social scientist ; Is metaphysical thinking relative? The argument of a Christian philosopher ; Another philosophical argument ; What philosophy of religion today? ; The endeavors of reason ; The religion of will (a hypothesis on Christianity) ; The matter of hope

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